We believe that Chad Harris, Chad Everett Harris, Chad Everett H., Riot Blockchain, CEO at Whinstone US, hacked into our site Digital Arteries and into the site of one of our contributors for the purpose of sending spam comprised of email advertising child porn, bestiality, gambling, and worse.
The hacking could’ve been instigated and accomplished in a number of well publicized ways. All easily discoverable on hacker forums or with keyword based searches in Google.
During the time of the hack about 50 other businesses were taken off line causing economic damage to each. If we’re correct, Chad Harris used the domain name and the good name of the contributor to spread evil to unsuspecting people around the world.
The 2 sites referenced here were down 6 days. Tremendous damage was done to Digital Arteries and the reputation of our guest contributor.
Our hosting company and the security organization we use have confirmed the following:
- The hack happened late in the day February 2, 2017 or early in the morning February, 3, 2017.
- The 1st hack was into THE SITE OF GUEST CONTRIBUTOR
- Malicious PHP code was placed on every page.
- The site began sending about 4000 spam a minute from THE SITE OF GUEST CONTRIBUTOR.
- There were about 200,000 bounce backs — which gives us an idea of the volume sent.
- Shortly after THE SITE OF GUEST CONTRIBUTOR was hacked, DIGITAL ARTERIES was hacked.
- The sites were down from February 3, 2017 – February 9, 2017.
On February 2, 2017, Digital Arteries received the email below –
—–Original Message—–
From: Chad Harris [mailto:charris@thegardengates.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 7:27 PM
To: REDACTED
Subject: [Digital Arteries] Post removal
This article does not contain facts. This is about The Garden Gates retail store that closed because of a lease dispute. It is well known what took place.
As for the canceling of contracts, yes that business closed in August 2015. The online business was and has always been a complete and separate business.
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To learn more about The Garden Gates retail and online store, click here.
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On February 2, 2017, The Guest Contributor received the email below –
From: Chad Harris [mailto:charris@thegardengates.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 7:55 PM
To: REDACTED
Subject: BurnBrighter
Good Evening:
I will kindly ask that you remove the post, and I will not spend any time on this. If you elect to keep that post in place, that will be a decision you will have to consider.
I promise I won’t hide behind a screen name, we closed the retail business because of a lease dispute- just for the record.
You might want to remove this url from your index to continue to hide your identity.
quotrosunta.host56.com/g/304.htmlTranslate this page – Mar 18, 2008 by Burnbrighter. By REDACTED. When it comes to … no one knows your …digitalarteries.com/advertising-marketing/ …
Sincerely,
Chad Harris
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*** Chad Harris sent an after hours email making a request but before we could take any action in response; The site of the guest contributor and Digital Arteries was hacked into. The logs indicate the IP addresses below. In the many years the sites were active we can find no evidence that anyone from these IP addresses visited the sites before the hacking episode or after. In fact, the hacked site of the guest contributor was seldom visited by anyone and would go days without visitors — until Chad Harris, alone, or with others, figured out who the guest contributor is and found his personal site. Then it was hacked. Followed soon after by Digital Arteries.
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2 breeches from Metairie IP: 70.196.148.138. 1 breech from Kenner IP: 108.196.213.154. Chad Harris was located in Metairie at the time and Kenner is the next town over.
For the record, Mr. Harris has his business in Metairie LA and lives in New Orleans, LA, Kenner is located close to Metairie.
To be clear: the site of the contributor, the 1st site to be hacked, saw maybe 10-20 human visitors a year. It is not a site he publicized or pushed into public awareness. During the time period of the hack, the site was hit by Metairie and Kenner IP address 3 times. Each visit hit the same obscure back door page.
Metairie, United States arrived from http://www.google.com/ and visited http://redacted.com/method/
2/3/2017 2:05:51 AM IP: 70.196.148.138 [unblock] Hostname: 138.sub-70-196-148.myvzw.com
Browser: Chrome version 0.0 running on Android
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; VS990 Build/MRA58K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.91 Mobile Safari/537.36
Kenner, United States arrived from http://www.google.com/ and visited http://redacted.com/method/
2/2/2017 4:53:13 PM IP: 108.196.213.154 [unblock] Hostname: 108-196-213-154.lightspeed.nworla.sbcglobal.net
Browser: Chrome version 0.0 running on Android
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; SM-G930V Build/MMB29M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.91 Mobile Safari/537.36
Metairie, United States arrived from http://www.google.com/ and visited http://redacted.com/method/
2/2/2017 10:08:09 AM IP: 70.196.148.138 [unblock] Hostname: 138.sub-70-196-148.myvzw.com
Browser: Chrome version 0.0 running on Android
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; VS990 Build/MRA58K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.91 Mobile Safari/537.36
When confronted with his IP address, Chad Harris wrote:
From: Chad Harris [mailto:charris@thegardengates.com]
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 7:50 AM
To: Redacted
Subject: Re: The hacking of REDACTED.COM + DIGITAL ARTERIES
I visited your website on the day I sent you an email, that is truth. I did not hack your site, that is truth. I would not hack a site because that is bad Karma…
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*** Chad Harris failed to mention that he not only visited the site the day of the hack, he visited it while the hack was active. The hacker always went to the same backdoor page whether it be from Metairie or from Kenner.
Learn more about Chad Harris below —
Chad Everett Harris, Whinstone, Riot Blockchain, Northern Data AG accused of accounting fraud Read that article here.
Chad Harris defaults on million dollar loan, click here to learn more. Be sure to read the court doc. It’s a hoot, He tries to play the victim. The judge ain’t buying it.
Chad Everett Harris owned this business while defaulting on loans and invoices. Click here to learn more.
Disclosure: We have no stock, option or similar derivative position in any of the companies mentioned, and no plans to initiate any such positions within the next 72 hours. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the authors.